Chapter 6

What is the link between the playwright's words and the actor's speech?

performibillity

Drama

imitation; we imitate through play, those things that arouse emotions

Mimesis

imitation of human beings in action - Aristotle

What are Drama's chief elements?

plot, character, language, musics, spectacle

Plot

an arranged sequence of events having a beginning, middle and end

Character

physiological/ psychological makeup of a person in the play

Language

Spoken word

Meaning

underlying idea- truths about experience

Spectacle

all visual/ aural elements

Time

Symbolic time of the play

Action

"focus or aim of physical life from which the events result"

Henrik Ibsen

NORWEGIAN PLAYWRIGHT (1828-1906); made public aware of "realism" as a dramatic form; relationship btw environmental forces / internal psychological motivations of characters; wrote . A Doll's House, Peer Gynt, Chosts, Enemy of the People; established as radical thinker; symbolism; more concerned with personal relationships than social problems; theme remained struggle for integrity, conflict btw duty to oneself and duty to others; refined well-made play to realistic style

Play structure

exposition, confrontation, crisis, climax, resolution

Climactic Structure

Aristotle : cause- to effect arrangement, starts near crisis

Episodic Structure

Medieval plays, takes through journey, ends at understanding

Situational structure

situation shapes the play

Who wrote the Bald Soprano

Ionesco

Theater of images

described robert wilson's philip glass and Lee Breuer post modern work.